Timeline

“I note one thing about time. The first twenty years seem lengthy, real, substantial, paced for looking ahead and slow, waiting, growing, all kinds of not yets. And then a swirl of events, and a week was gone like a day, and a year like a week. And suddenly it seems dream-telescoping of the residue of years.” The Truman G. Madsen Story, p. 442

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

13 December 1926

Born to Axel A. and Emily Grant Madsen

6 February 1927

Given name and father’s blessing by Axel A. Madsen (“AAM”)

31 July 1929

Death of mother, Emily Grant Madsen

October 1929

Stock Market crash, beginning of Great Depression

1929-1934

Lived with Aunt Dessie and Uncle Ashby Boyle

5-6 January 1935

Baptized in Salt Lake Temple font and confirmed by father AAM

Fall 1935

Returned to live with his father and two brothers

18 December 1938

Ordained deacon by father AAM

21 December 1941

Ordained teacher by father AAM

6 May 1943

Received patriarchal blessing from Winslow Farr Smith

16 April 1944

Ordained priest by father AAM

1939-45

World War II (because of back problems, classified “4F,” drove trucks as a civilian for Ninth Service Command from Ft. Douglas motor pool)

1942

Premier of movie “Random Harvest”

1944

Graduated from East High School, Salt Lake City

14 May 1945

Death of grandfather, Heber J. Grant

3-20 June 1946

17 days in Salt Lake City Jail for multiple moving violations

23 June 1946

Ordained elder by C. Clarence Neslen

27 June 1946

Received endowment, Salt Lake Temple

July 1946

Set apart as full-time missionary by Joseph Fielding Smith (great-grandson of Hyrum Smith) to serve in New England Mission

28 July 1973

1972-73

1973 early

“I Am the Life” (BYU Education Week devotional)

1973 summer

“Conscience and Consciousness” (Address prepared for the Commissioner’s Lecture Series, CES, delivered at the LDS Institutes of Religion at Weber State College, Ricks College, and the Church College of Hawaii)

1973-79

Chairman, Public Programs Committee, National Endowment for the Humanities

Set Apart as Director of the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies and as first Counselor in the Israel District Presidency, May 21, 1991 by Howard W. Hunter. President first second Dr. Richard Hebertson and 2nd Counselor

Released, June 1993.

Teacher, Gospel Doctrine Class, PI View First Ward, 1993-4.

President BYU 5th Stake, 1955-2000. [1995-2000]

Since Graduation

8 years in Boston as missionary, as grad student, then as Mission President, then on Sabbatical.